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Trooper First Class Joseph T. Lanzi, Sr.

End of Watch: 10/28/1995
Age: 37
Years of Service: 5
Cause of Death: Automobile Accident
National Memorial Panel: 35-W: 20

​Trooper First Class Lanzi was responding to a call for help from a Cecil County sheriff's deputy. The deputy had called for back up due to a man with a gun at the scene of a DWI accident on Route 238. Trooper First Class Lanzi was killed in a single vehicle accident on Route 213 near Town Point Road about seven miles south of Elkton. His patrol vehicle veered off the roadway during a downpour and hit a tree.​